Pedantia: Section, January 21
Section D
15-212, Spring 1998

From sal@ri.cmu.edu Sun Jan 25 17:41:48 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:59:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Speck of Dust 
To: 15-212 Class List 
Subject: 15-212 Section D: 1/21/98

In case you didn't get it down:

Salvatore Desiano
sal@ri.cmu.edu
BOM-D, Room 308, 268-8130
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15212-s98/www

Books:

You should own at least Java in a Nutshell, the book with the word "theory" in the title, and another book on Java if you feel that you will need to start from first principles. There's no need to worry about Java for at least two weeks. If anyone knows of any good books for learning Java, please e-mail me the title.

Homework Deadline:

There was some question about when the homework is due. The "Teaspoon of Java" assignment should be mailed to me by midnight, Monday. The two homeworks (X and 1) are due in section on Wednesday. No late assignments will be accepted this week.

Office Hours:

I'm thinking about Tuesdays, 3-4 in the afternoon. If anybody can't make it to that time at all, please let me know now. Of course, you can always e-mail me to make an appointment at some other time.

Collaboration:

There is, essentially, no collaboration on problem sets. The official policy is on the web page, www/tests.html (or under "Syllabus" from the main page). Feel free, however, to work through problems similar to the problem set together.

Cookies:

I have a few of the surveys back, and the best they came up with was "Chocolate Chip" (though, somebody only wanted them if we had milk) There are thousands of brands of cookies out there... you can do better than that!

Homework Issues:

[See Homework #1 Issues under "Pedantia" on the 15-212D web page]

Following are topics that I covered in section today, and that you all said you understood (If you don't understand any of them, please let me know!):

1. Homework (Handout #1)
2. Course Policies
   1. Grading
   2. Regrading
   3. Homework
   4. Class participation
3. Java
   1. Java in a Nutshell
   2. Just Java
   3. Teaspoon of Java (Handout #2)
4. DFSA (2.1)
   1. What they are
   2. How they work
   3. Three representations (state diagram, two function tables)
5. NFSA (2.2)
   1. Difference from DFSA
   2. What they are
   3. How they work
   4. Equivalence to DFSA
6. Regular Expressions (2.3)
   1. Special characters
   2. How to construct one (I didn't discuss this in depth, but if you don't know, contact me)

See you in pictures,

-- Sal
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